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Ford was behind the 'self-driving' stunt where a man was dressed like a car seat

(September 14 04:03) The Verge

In early August, the transportation reporter at Arlington, Virginia&rsquo;s NBC affiliate filmed a video as he approached a Ford Transit van that appeared to be piloted by a man dressed up as the front seat of a car. Despite the fact that the man&rsquo;s hands were clearly poking out of the costume, and the reporter&rsquo;s earnest prompt of &ldquo;I&rsquo;m with the news, dude,&rdquo; there were no apparent answers. The video went appropriately viral, and only then was it uncovered that this wasn&rsquo;t just a goof, it was a test being performed by Virginia Tech&rsquo;s Transportation Institute. Now, it turns out, Ford was in on it, too.
A post on Ford&rsquo;s Self-Driven blog details how the company, which has been funding the project over at VTTI, was using this ruse to learn about how...
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